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Introduction: Different results have been achieved in the evaluation of antiparasitic drug activity in Mongolian jirds, hamsters, and BALB/c mice infected with Babesia microti.
Jun-ming Yao+4 more
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Assessing the reporting quality of published qualitative evidence syntheses in the cochrane library
Abstract Background Over ten years since the first qualitative evidence synthesis (QES) was published in the Cochrane Library, QES and mixed‐methods reviews (MMR) with a qualitative component have become increasingly common and influential in healthcare research and policy development.
Martina Giltenane+12 more
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Ivermectin mass drug administration (MDA) in humans to reduce malaria vectors is yet another use for this remarkable medicine whose discoverers shared the 2015 Nobel Prize in Medicine with the discoverer of artemisinin.
Frank O. Richards
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Economic evaluations of lymphatic filariasis interventions: a systematic review and research needs
In 2000, the World Health Organization established the Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (GPELF), with the goal of eliminating the disease as a public health problem by 2020.
Lukyn M. Gedge+4 more
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Escalation of Germinal Center Responses in Chronic Litomosoides sigmodontis Filarial Infection
T follicular helper (TFH) cells provide essential help to B cells in germinal centers (GCs). TFH and GC B cell responses are long‐lasting in draining mediastinal lymph nodes of Litomosoides sigmodontis‐infected BALB/c mice, a rodent model of filarial infection. ABSTRACT T follicular helper (TFH) cells are the primary CD4+ T helper cell subset providing
Teresa Steffen+9 more
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Filariasis is an infectious disease caused by filarial worms and transmitted by mosquitoes. Efforts to suppress the case of filariasis are eliminated through the administration of filariasis Mass Drug Prevention (MDP).
Irfan Irfan+2 more
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Albendazole alone or in combination with microfilaricidal drugs for lymphatic filariasis
Background The Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis recommends mass treatment of albendazole co‐administered with the microfilaricidal (antifilarial) drugs diethylcarbamazine (DEC) or ivermectin; and recommends albendazole alone in areas ...
C. L. Macfarlane+4 more
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ABSTRACT Anopheles mosquitoes are major malaria vectors, encompassing several species complexes with diverse life histories, transmission risks and insecticide resistance profiles that challenge malaria control efforts. This study investigated the genetic structure and insecticide resistance profiles of Anopheles gambiae complex mosquitoes in Tanzania.
Sophia H. Mwinyi+11 more
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Background Sri Lanka was acknowledged to have eliminated lymphatic filariasis (LF) as a public health problem in 2016, largely due to its success in Mass Drug Administration (MDA) to interrupt disease transmission.
N. Chandrasena+3 more
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The Population Biology and Transmission Dynamics of Loa loa [PDF]
Endemic to Central Africa, loiasis – or African eye worm (caused by the filarial nematode Loa loa) – affects more than 10 million people. Despite causing ocular and systemic symptoms, it has typically been considered a benign condition, only of public ...
Basáñez, M-G+5 more
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